…“Yo. This is it,” Yung says, landing the stolen spinner. Canyon Orchards teem with life, a stark contrast to the barren kipple in the foothills just a half-mile away. Vibrant, mutated fruit hangs from black and withered trees. Mutants of all shapes and descriptions have pitched tents under the trees.

…“We will reclaim the city,” Brother Trevelyan preaches from the porch of the orchard’s farmhouse. “We will tear down the skyscrapers and make all people equal!”

…Outside on the streets, violence has erupted. Lower Tier cyborgs and Triad members are battling DefenseTech mercs and LSPD cops. With uncanny coordination, the vaccinated citizens of the Middle Tier fall into formation and join the fray against the Lower Tier rioters.

Neon Dream

This week on The Soulprint Files…

…Raymond looks around at his few pieces of scattered furniture and clucks his tongue at the careless job someone did in rifling through his apartment.

…“What the situation like on the Lower Tier?” Malachai asks Jimmy the Finger through the latter’s car vidphone. “Dunno,” Jimmy replies, “everything’s quarantined. We can barely get in and out of Club Enigma…”

…Raymond runs pell mell down the hall, past a row of waiting Los Santos police officers, as Malachai caps a beat cop in the face and Yung rolls down the hall on a maintenance cart, shotgun sounding (its airhorn).

…“We can use the drug running tunnels to get to the Lower Tier,” Yung says. “Can’t take a car in, yo. Only motorcycles.” He grins.

…“The corporations must be brought down so the common people can rise,” the black-coated mutant tells Gregor, his voice hazy and dreamlike. “Join us in the Canyon Orchards…” “Who are you?” Gregor asks, “What do you know about the Raccoon Virus and the vaccine?” But the other mutant is gone, and Gregor is alone outside the lab.

…“He’s…infected, for lack of a better word…by nanoviruses,” Teresa whispers to Raymond, looking over at the Venutti hit man whose blood she just tested. At that moment, the hit man’s face goes blank and he pulls a grenade out of his pocket…

…A young guard named Jackson stops their van at the entrance to the Grail parking deck, his eyes glazing over as the power of the team's mutant accomplice works on him.

…Malachai pins a security guard against the wall outside of Grail's office as the rest of the team slips inside. "Just keep quiet…" the mob hit man says.

"Youll never get away with this…" the officer hisses back.

…Grail's private safe swings open under Raymond's hands, revealing a second mysterious device and a journal, just as Teresa finds letters from a Wing-Arisaka engineer named Siegel Tokihiro to Grail.

…Teresa activates her grav plate, sending an elevator full of DefenseTech mercenaries plummeting to their death. Gregor barks out, "This way!" as he opens a hidden stairway leading down to Grail's private spinner garage.

…"C'mon Mal. I rocked the house just then, yo," Yung says as he jukes Grail's spinner out of the path of two DefenseTech vehicles. Malachai rolls his eyes.

Chapels Perilous

This week on The Soulprint Files…

…Teresa places the glass lens over Yung’s eye and twirls the knobs on the mysterious mechanical detector. “What were you doing in your room?” she asks. “Carving BIGMONIBIZNEZZ into this shotgun, yo!” Yung declares. The detector’s needle shoots to the symbol for “Person.”

…Petunia Twai launches herself, stilettos-first, at a cigar-smoking mercenary captain from DefenseTech, as goons-for-hire pour into Club Enigma. “We’re looking for five assassins…” the captain begins.

…A swaying camera angle reveals that the Wing-Arasaka employee that Raymond assassinated must have been on a boat.

…“You want to join us?” the Church of Man mutant says to Gregor. “Find Brother Burke.”

…Brother Burke’s face changes as he looks at Raymond. “You want to get into Grail? I can help you. But whatever cure he’s got for the raccoon virus, I want it delivered to the people on the Lower Tier…”

…“You brought back my little girl,” Horace Venutti says in the back room of Club Enigma. “And the medicine from Grail…?”

…Inside the chest, Teresa finds nine doses of a clear liquid in syringes, along with a leather-and-brushed-steel briefcase. Malachai undergoes vaccination first, followed by Yung and Elspeth, though Teresa knows the girl is too far gone to be saved by a vaccine.

…Raymond thumbs open the briefcase, the combination to which is his birth date, and reveals an odd machine: two dials, five buttons, a gauge marked “Person,” “Place,” “Thing,” and a glass lens affixed to a half circle of flexible metal.

…A KSH newsfeed shows Raymond shooting an Asian-looking man in the face, and calls all five members of the team “assassins” who are “armed and dangerous.”